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  • If TV Is Now A ‘Secondary Device’, Why Are Multi-Screen Campaigns Still So Difficult?

    New research from YuMe indicates that the TV is losing its prominence in terms of media consumption, but continues to dominate ad spend, pointing to a failure of the digital media industry to keep apace with its own innovations. Charting [...]

  • ‘Programmatic will be massive in APAC, but there are key areas that need focus’

    Tom Simpson, Mediaquark, CEO, shares insights on some of the common mistakes made by international companies looking to successfully crack the diverse APAC region. Singapore-based Simpson stresses the need for localisation (plus increased levels of education) in the APAC region [...]

  • The Truth About Online Ad Fraud

    The FT published an article documenting the levels of online ad fraud present on a recent Mercedes-Benz campaign earlier this week bringing the debate to a more mainstream audience. Jalal Nasir, Pixalate, co-founder, CEO, lifts the lid on some of the techniques [...]

  • Rocket Fuel Hits Back At ‘Sensational Headlines’ In Bot Traffic Row

    Under-fire Rocket Fuel has moved to underline its credentials in the “arms race” between ad tech players and “scammers” after being cited in a critical FT article claiming a recent it participated in for Mercedez-Benz was plagued with click fraud [...]

  • The Guardian Preps Mobile App Relaunch, Brings Programmatic To Its Core

    The Guardian is preparing to relaunch its mobile app offering to help advertisers access its most engaged readers, as it also continues to place programmatic media trading at the core of its commercial operations. The disclosure was made this week by [...]

  • Adobe: Marketers Pin Hopes On Data Analysts To Keep Up With The Times

    Adobe study points to serious gaps in the digital skillet among brand-side marketers across Europe, with those in the UK looking to hire data analysts to help “reinvent” themselves. Adobe marked its European Summit by publishing “a wake-up call for business [...]

  • Waking Up Brand Managers To Mobile Programmatic

    Chris Bourke, Qriously, commercial director, EMEA, explains how employing mobile and programmatic can help marketeers solve problems foisted upon them by social media. How does an industry that warns brand marketers “correlation is not causality” expect to woo their budget? This [...]

  • Facebook Posts Strong App Install Gains, But Competition From Google And Twitter Looms

    Facebook has announced revenues of $2.5bn for the first quarter of 2014, an increase of 72%, with mobile app install ads providing the bulk of its growth, and investors reacting positively to the results. However imminent competition for mobile app [...]

  • Programmatic or Premium? If You Think You Have To Choose, You’re Doing It Wrong

    Ahead of this year’s Ad Trader conference hosted in Berlin, Graham Moysey, AOL, head of international, tells publishers there that selling ads programmatically need not involve selling inventory at bargain basement prices. The idea that ad buyers and sellers should have [...]

  • When Ad Tech Arrived At Ad Week

    'Fragmentation Feeds The Need For Automation', that was pretty much the message here. The mobilisation of consumers, cross-device targeting, wearable tech, these are all key trends at Ad Week Europe currently being hosted in London. Here the ad tech [...]